Load binder



F. A. JENKINS LOAD BINDER Filed Feb. 16. 1927 Ill iiiiiiiiiiiiiiflii'5fihllIUIIUIIIIIW um minimum 9 151412 1 w. 1/ HIM-mill! INVENTOR r WITNESSES ATTORNEY i Patented July 19, 1927.

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LOAD Bmmm Application fled February 10, 1927. Serial No. 188,783.

This invention relates to a load binder which is a device for quickly and strongly binding heavy loads for handling with a crane or otherwise. This device which I have provided will permit of almost instantaneous locking of the binder and equally quick taking up of the slack in the rope or chain around the load. Once locked, this binder will not open under stress unless the looking lever is opened by hand.-

Referring now to the drawings,

re 1 illustrates a perspective view of the evice applied to a load such as "a stone or a cotton bale and shows the binder in '15 locked position,

Figure 2 shows a perspective view of the device in an open position, a

Figure 3 shows a side elevation of the locking member, and

Fi re 4 shows a plan view, partly in section of the locking members.

Inthe drawings, referring particularly to Fig. 2, the reference characters 1-1 re 'resent hooks to be applied to links of a c ain or eyelets of a rope, as in Fi rel, 2-2 represent links connecting the ooks to the rotatable rin bolts 33, 4 and 5 are shackles, 4 being ofordinary shape while 5 is provided with a notch 6 in one orbotli of its sides. The top portion 7 of shackle 5 is 'made convex so that its inner surface conforms to the arcuate portion 8 of lever 11. 9 and 10 are bolts or pins, holding shackles 4 and 5 to the lever 11 at the'ends or arcuate portion 8."

Referring now to Figure 3, 33 represent the ring bolt shanks, 4 is a shackle of usual shape, 5 is the arcuate shackle, 6 is the notch therein and 7 is the curved surface of the shackle. 8 is the'arcuate portion of lever 11 now fitting into shackle 5, the head of bolt of pin 10 engaging notch 6 and being retained there against stress. Referrin 11 indicates the inside to Flgure 4, lever with 1ts arcuate portion 8, lyin the shackle 5 with the pin 10 of shaclfie 4 engaged in the notch of shackle 5. In this view, the retaining devices 12, 13, and 14--14, are shown. This device consists of a hole 12 bored in the side of lever 11 approximately at the point shown, containing in said hole two hard steel balls 14-14 spaced apart and retained by a spring 13. The balls project about the extent of one hemisphere on each side, thereby providing a yieldingly engaging contact in cooperation with correspondingly hemispherical detents 15-15 bored in the inside walls of shackle 5 at substantially the points shown, the operation of the device being as follows:

The device is laid flat upon the load in the position shown in Figure 1, except that the lever 11 lies flat on the load at the left side.

The hooks 1-1 are slipped inside the links notches 15-15.

This invention is obviously susceptible of other modifications which I claim as my own if they fall within the scope of the ap pended claims.

I claim 1. A load binder oomprisin a pair of shackles, one of which is provi ed with one or more retaining notches, a lever, a portion of which is curved, pins passing through the shackle ends and the lever substantially where the curved and straight portions of the lever join, and means whereby to engage one or more of the heads of one of the pins in the retaining notches.

-2.. A load binder comprising two hooks, swivel means connecting each of said hooks to a shackle, a lever having acurbed portion near its end, a pair of shackles, one of which has a curved recess to accommodate the curved portion of the lever, and retain ing notches cut therein, pins passing through both shackles and engaging the notches of "one or more chain links attached thereto,

swivels connecting each chain to one of a pair of shackles, a air of shackles each connected by means 0 a pin to a lever having an arcuate portion near its end substantially at the ends of the arcuate portion, one of said shackles insertible bodily into the other shackle, notches cut into the sides of the larger shackle, projecting heads on' the pin holding the smaller shackle to the lever, whereby the smaller shackle may be retained in the larger shackle by means of the notches and spring retaining means for holding the lever lnto a shackle.

FLOYD A. JENKINS. i 

